installing SVN server using NGINX

Question

I am trying to install SVN server and use it with my NGINX webserver. i have tried this
in server section in nginx/sites-enabled/svn i have added this

 location /var/svn/repos { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:81; #include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf; set $dest $http_destination; if ($http_destination ~ "^https://(.+)") { set $dest http://$1; } proxy_set_header Destination $dest; } 

and i am running apache on port 81 and have made the virtual host that were running 100% on apache. now whenever i try to svn checkout, i get this:

 $ svn co http://svn.mysite.com/myrepo svn: Server sent unexpected return value (500 Internal Server Error) in response to OPTIONS request for 'http://svn.mysite.com/myrepo' 

and in error log i have this

 2012/04/18 07:43:36 [error] 9914#0: *106 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internal redirect to "/index.html", client: 93.95.201.250, server: mysite.com, request: "GET /myrepo HTTP/1.1", host: "svn.mysite.com" 

Do anybody know how to install svn server on nginx? any idea is highly appreciated?
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

I have had success with something like this. You might be able to simplify it even more, but it might provide you with a working configuration.

In nginx.conf (or other .conf-file under /etc/nginx/conf.d):

location /var/svn/repos { # the "proxy_set_header Destination"-stuff is moved to apache's config - see below proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:81/var/svn/repos; } 

Then in /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

... <VirtualHost *:81> RequestHeader edit Destination ^https http early <Location /var/svn/repos> DAV svn SVNPath /var/svn/repos </Location> </VirtualHost>